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This single-minded drive explains why China has full-time academies dedicated to what most countries consider a rec-room pastime. At the Luneng Table-Tennis School in Shandong province, 230 boarding students crowd a gymnasium set up with 80 Ping-Pong tables. In the morning, children train for about...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: China's Sports School: Crazy for Gold | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Childhood obesity is nothing short of an epidemic. A study released last month revealed that nearly a third of America's kids are overweight or obese--and, amazingly enough, the media seemed to consider that good news since the figures were leveling off slightly. (That's like in Washington, where...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: A Full Plate. | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

Whom do you consider to be the next superstar of men's tennis? Jeff Mollerup, MEMPHIS, TENN.

Author: /time Magazine | Title: 10 Questions for Pete Sampras | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

'Maybe Texas is not the place you need to consider calling home.' RICK PERRY, Texas governor, warning polygamist members of the Fundamentalist Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints that child sex abuse will not be tolerated, despite a ruling that flds members must remain in Texas for investigation...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Verbatim | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

There are a lot of ways the push-pull between simplicity and complexity is being explored and explained. Consider how babies learn to speak--a job so complicated that by some measures they shouldn't be able to do it at all. By the time babies are 18 months old...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: The Art of Simplexity | 6/12/2008 | See Source »

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